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[onedodd]

OK to the point,

I have a customer with one site, his original site that he must remove or change due to trademark issues with the domain. It is called *ww.customterminatorlures.com.

Without getting into why here is what was done: He just purchased a new domain called *ww.customsaltwaterlures.com that has no trademark issues, thankfully.

For now I uploaded the same site to the new hosting for his new domain customsaltwaterlures.com after a sitewide link change from customterminatorlures.com to customsaltwaterlures.com of course.

I then implemented a simple 301 redirect for now to make sure he was out of danger from the lawyers because the deadline was fast approaching for him to change the site name. Still have on-site header banners etc to change but at least terminator is out of the domain.

Right now you type in customterminatorlures.com and it redirects to customsaltwaterlures.com.

I worked hard on the old site and it paid off with spectacular ranks. He has some very good ranks in some very competitive fishing sectors.
I DO NOT want to lose the ranks if at all possible.

What should be done to save the site in the SERP's?

1 - Can I point the DNS nameservers for the first site to the second site? What will happen if I do this? Is this even possible? Even then would I have to do something in my .htaccess file to change the name terminator to saltwater in the domain?

2 - Is the 301 redirect enough? Because obvious PageRank isn't transferred and that makes me think the top rankings will go bye bye.

3 - What about something called a CNAME? I don't know this but it was suggested to me.


You guys have always come through here with some great help - well here's another one for you - All input is welcome and I am happy to get it.

Thanks Joe

[Marcia]

onedodd, since there are pressing legal issues involved in your situation, I've moved this thread over to the Search & Legal Issues forum for examination of the most mportant factors, which are legal in nature.

[onedodd]

Legal issues??

There aren't any legal issues. Those were just the reason why I was changing the domain. All legal issues are settled between my site owner and the other party involved.

My question has nothing to do with legal issues. Did you even read my questions? They are STRICTLY search related or technical questions.

I didn't even have to include the why I was doing this. I could have just said because I wanted to do this because we didn't like the name.

I don't need any legal advice or legal questions answered at all.

The questions are search related only.
What should be done to save the site in the SERP's?

1 - Can I point the DNS nameservers for the first site to the second site? What will happen if I do this? Is this even possible? Even then would I have to do something in my .htaccess file to change the name terminator to saltwater in the domain?

2 - Is the 301 redirect enough? Because obvious PageRank isn't transferred and that makes me think the top rankings will go bye bye.

3 - What about something called a CNAME? I don't know this but it was suggested to me.


You guys have always come through here with some great help - well here's another one for you - All input is welcome and I am happy to get it.

Thanks Joe

[Marcia]

Legal issues??Yes, according to the first post in the thread:

OK to the point,

I have a customer with one site, his original site that he must remove or change due to trademark issues with the domain. It is called *ww.customterminatorlures.com.So then, to respond to:

There aren't any legal issues. Those were just the reason why I was changing the domain. All legal issues are settled between my site owner and the other party involved.

My question has nothing to do with legal issues.So then, what was the reference in the first post meant to convey, if not a legal matter? Trademark issues with domain names were a legal matter last I heard. Has that changed so that it's no longer an issue that involves legal specifications? If so, we'd sure like to know.

And as a side issue, what about type-ins that violate TM? Is that an issue?

All that aside, which seems to have resulted in some confusion, to clarify he issues, what exactly is it that you want to know?

[onedodd]

Meant to convey nothing. I shouldn't have even posted it. Was just being thorough.
It was just giving as a reason I was changing the domain. Guess you didn't need to know that.

I could have said because God told me to change it but that wouldn't mean I needed religious advice.

My questions asked nothing about the legal ramifications - my questions which are the important part of the post were strictly technical.

It isn't a big deal.

I reposted without the why I am doing it other than I just want to do it. I would like to know anyway just to know so please delete this thread and leave the other one Marcia - Thank You very much and have a very nice night/morning.

[webkidsan]

I agree its definitly not a legal issue he is inquiring about ... the poor guy was just giving more details ...